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Workers for the ministry that oversees employment disputes are striking in Christchurch today after salary negotiations failed.

Forty workers in Christchurch and more than 1000 across the country were on strike seeking a 2 per cent pay rise from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

Public Service Association (PSA) union national secretary Richard Wagstaff said MBIE staff had spent over a year "trying to get a fair deal'', and had become ''increasingly frustrated with their employer's refusal to offer decent wage movement''.

''After a year, the best pay offer is nothing for those who are entitled to progression through their salary scale and 1 per cent for everyone else,'' he said.